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I've blogged before about the bug in Madcap Flare that results in all paragraph formats having hyphenation switched on.

Paragraphs should never be hyphenated unless they are justified. Hyphenating text that's aligned left looks daft. So the result is that you have to sort out this problem in the FrameMaker files produced by Flare before you can output to PDF. A tedious process, but here's the best way to do it. The same tip applies to any change you want to make to each and every format in a FrameMaker file:

1. Open the FrameMaker file.
2. Choose Format > Paragraph > Designer.
3. In the Paragraph Designer dialog box, click the Commands button.
4. Choose Set Window to As Is.
5. Now make the format change you want to make. In our case, click the Advanced tab and clear the Hyphenate check box.
6. Click the Commands button again.
7. This time choose Global Update Options.
8. In the Global Update Options dialog box, choose whether you want to apply changes from multiple tabs in the Paragraph Designer dialog box, or just the currently displayed tab. In our case, we've only made one change so it doesn't matter which of these options you choose.
9. In the Update Paragraph Formats section, choose All Paragraphs and Catalog Entries.
10. Click Update.
11. Save the document.

That's it. Hyphenation is removed from all formats in the document.

You can now use this document as a template for the other document. To do this:

1. In the book window, select all chapter documents.
2. Choose File > Import > Formats.
3. In the Import from Document field, choose the document you just modified.
4. Select all of the check boxes in the Import Formats dialog box.
5. Click Import.